Poultry health food.



UNITED STATES PPilENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed December 15,1905. Serial No. 291,931.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. CART- WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Georgetown, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and" useful Im rovements in Poultry Health Food; and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as vwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to improvements in foods, and particularly to a poultry-food.

The object of the invention is the roduotion ofa food which will keep the pouitry in a vigorous healthy condition and promote the laying of eggs.

With this and other objects in view the invention consistsvin combining certain substances for producing a food, as will be hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

My improved poultry-food comprises certain substances mixed in a dry state for pro-. ducing a dry composition or powder.

While the proportions hereinafter given are designed to make one pound of sixteen ounces. of the food, any larger amount can be made'with corresponding ratios; The ingredients or substances com rising one pound of the food are as follows: lood meal, which is dried ulverized blood, three ounces; ound or pu verized flaxseed r'neal, preferab y with oil extracted, two ounces; common wheatbran, two ounces; common salt, one ounce; ground or pulverized red pepper, one ounce; ground or pulverized ginger-root, one ounce; ground or pulverized oyster-shells, two and one-half ounces; Venetian red, one and seven-sixteenths ounces; black antimony,

one-sixteenth ounce; copperas, one ounce; pulverized sulfur, one ounce. After these ingredients have been thoroughly mixed any desired quantity of the compound may be moistened and mixed Withthe regular food which is to be given to the poultryas, for instance, (grain or mash. The amount of the compoun which is ordinarily fed to a dozen hens is oneteaspoonful. This amount of the compound is preferably given to the poultry every day, if necessary; but it may be given on alternate days or more seldom, as may seem best.

The compound will keep oultry in a vigorous healthy condition, w 'ch will insure the hens laying well. This compound will prevent common poultry diseasesas, for instance, cholera. It will also make the poultry lively and bright, as well as keeping their feathers smooth and glossy.

What I claim is 1. A poultry-powder comprising blood meal, ulverized flaxseed-meal, common wheat-Eran, common salt, pulverized red pepper, pulverized ginger-root, pulverized oyster-shells, Venetian red, black antimony, cop eras, and pulverized sulfur in substantial y'the proportions specified.

2. A poultry powder, comprising the fol- I lowing ingredients in substantially the proportions iven, namely forty-eight parts lood mea thirty-two parts fiaxseed-meal,

thirty-two parts common wheat-bran, sixteen parts common salt, sixteen parts pulverized red pepper, sixteen arts pulverized gin v-robt, forty parts pu verized oystershe a, twentyethree parts Venetian red, one part black antimony, sixteen parts copperas, and sixteen parts pulverized sulfur combined and intermingled 111 adry-state.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence" of two witnesses.

CHARLES P. CARTWRIGHT. Witnesses:

G. W R Kane. 0; C. Pmzcmrs. 

